clearly. the death toll from the algerian hostage crisis has reportedly risen with forty eight captives now said to have been killed the terrorists claim the attack was in retaliation for french intervention in mali. hundreds of friends and supporters commemorate internet freedom activist and schwartz that's his family maintains the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by overzealous prosecutors and the possible thirty year jail sentence. of a standard priest to dissolve parliament in a deal to end an unprecedented anti-government sit in protest in the capital party talks to the man leading the demonstration.

flown welcome to r.t. we can use it. in the aftermath of the algerian gas facility hostage crisis the military has reportedly captured five islamic terrorist alive reports now say up to forty eight hostages have been killed in the siege and was behind the attacks it was triggered by the french intervention in mali however many analysts believe france's own geo political ambitions i want to push to intervene this point reports . we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world . he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic

extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but potential set to exceed two hundred thousand the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his limits to insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say huge parts of it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other amazing parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power nuclear power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on

a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio learned it's not about power or money. and security this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally or to approach energy companies. is to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali in every year cars to exactly this year is going to be very cheap there's a very cheap. very true. very interesting and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pull out almost. i'm for intervention if it is to fight

terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons not of it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold already. they don't think about democracy well we have made paris a huge target and france are a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of an untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts illuminated political analysts say that fronts promise to stop playing big projects or former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon ali boy can see paris. international relations professor mark almond says it's the fallout from the intervention in libya that originally led to the crisis in mali. it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two

thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have are not really look through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send recalls of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just really numbers of guards would not apply to that bay are the same type of places here on all sides what seems to be really probably is that the insofar as the mali events probably sparklers nobody seems to think that perhaps you come from somewhere other than mali it seems they

came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons that's been produced by the collapse of the hoochie but also the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially foods operating in different parts of libya. and barack obama has now officially started his second term at the white house is the sound we get expert opinion want to expect from the american president for the next four years whether you make good on its promises. hundreds of people have gathered in new york to pay their respects to honor and swats an internet freedom activist who committed suicide last week the twenty six year old computer prodigy's death came before his trial for allegedly hacking into mit online publication archives this week federal prosecutors dropped the charges against him but his family and friends say the legal pressures drove the activist to take his own life

in a situation reports. the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database and the belief that they should be free. to essentially rocking out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to. p.d.'s to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received less punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as

a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it well but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz. case has made an example

of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted date back to one thousand nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences needed to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things that he did so they said he did new legislation dubbed aarons law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and party new york. pakistan's government has struck a deal with firebrand cleric to me to end a massive street protest in the country's capital the unprecedented sit in balding tens of thousands targeted the current leadership for widespread corruption and economic mismanagement as part of the deal that has agreed to dissolve parliament

and show you new elections voting should take place within ninety days. to agree to meet. over the parliament's term was due to expire in march anyway the clerics demand that the army set up an interim administration was rejected by the sun a deepening crisis is the government's faceoff of the supreme court its order to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations was dismissed so the journalist asked on air force officer his change of looming. people likening it to square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and

because of a long stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were downtrodden they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if east. he has to change of this country. and his supporters driven by anger over corruption and the flawed election system of call for their protest grow into revolution likeliness it into west where protests in egypt an exclusive interview the protest leader himself told us exactly what he means and

catch it here not in around two hours time. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries there was military dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was when eric here rule of shan shah the people stood up against that party stanek is bit different there is no one else who neither monadic nor military dictatorship here is electoral authority and the twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social field nor in economic field not democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim

world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues there could be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world and old third world and developing muslim countries we have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. meanwhile israel is heading into the last day of its parliamentary elections voting stations with. minister netanyahu struggles not just against the opposition so nice . for the bright.

georgian president mikheil saakashvili military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history great villains wouldn't even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion.

welcome back here with. barack obama is now officially beginning his second presidential term i think now a taken the oath of office at the white house on monday he's expected to spell out the prospects for the next four years and the press to deliver on some promises he so far failed to keep james lovelock who was the former head of america's libertarian party believes hope for change is futile. i'm not sure that we should get president obama credit or in united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regardless of what president obama. was ever stimulus and b. . in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the

american with respect as foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs all the nomination hate all my but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be whether to have a program of using drones. our has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including what we are as americans i'm not sick or sanguine about the prospects or seeing us move or for the united states being a country which basically respects international we and also desires respects the liberties of our own people. well israel will elect a new parliament on tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu predicted to come out on top and many israelis don't think his policies are radical enough one

time diehard netanyahu supporter reaping the rewards. their reports on why the israeli leader even has to fight against his former allies. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu is likud party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously when a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused

enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen the sopranos will never return for another season. growing our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have put bennett's jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right when with ready calls like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would retain a part it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital is jerusalem.

but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self rule in the west and

while that might not seem a plausible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact netanyahu is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. and they will be keeping a close eye on events action on terror naughty with in-depth up to the minute coverage how will changing with to run develop will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides on our trip. beijing has criticised washington for its latest comments on china's territorial brawl with japan in the south china sea saying the u.s. should be more careful with its words and stay away from the region's matters when it comes off the statements made by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton who assured tokyo of american support of warning

china against any unilateral action in the dispute both beijing and tokyo they claim to a string of uninhabited islands that are said to be rich in natural resources vission georgia. founder of international strategic alliances finds the u.s. is stoking the conflict between the two asian powers about us created this mess and i think the u.s. is continuing to pull on the problem that between between japan and china u.s. is again playing the strategic ambiguity game by on the one hand saying we're neutral about this and we're not taking sides between china and japan but on the other hand they're saying we recognize that japan has a mystery of control and therefore we would be opposed to any. action but how did your pain get the control the u.s.

. from the beginning to the year the u.s. was really responsible for this. mess. there's always a more few when our website r.t. dot com including seek and you shall find we tell you about one lucky australian gold this relentless efforts finally paid off not that were million dollars plus. what issues have long been looking for a way to end poverty and going to a new study it takes a natural people to put an end to extreme the world wide you can find out how by going to r.t. dot com. this week u.k. prime minister david cameron again postponed a crucial address on the vexed issue of britain's future within the european union but extracts from his speech were released to the public and gave little away that . we believe that you must address the challenges immediately i miss you as well to

stay in to believe that you don't his party for years. the british conservative party says david cameron can no longer delay it voicing a clear opinion. he needs to set a clear course of what he's going to be doing regarding the european you have a clear distinctive workable policy to fail to do that just keeps the speculation going and keeps the infighting in the conservative party continuing so really he needs to get a grip on this policy as soon as possible and perhaps not try and ally having a referendum till some time after the next general election even if yes prime minister but hold it before that would be the best way to end the uncertainty and so we know exactly where we are going britain pays billions each year to the european union we have enormous costs put on the british economy as a result of excessive e.u. regulation and e.u. policies they just don't work for this country it's more of a hindrance than it is

a help to the british economy and of course it undermines our own democracy and the option is quite simply to either stay in the european union as it is which doesn't work for many different people or of course leave the european union and negotiate a. basis of a relationship that's purely built around trade and the sooner david cameron delivers the wishes of the british people but turns power or exits the european union the better now some other news making headlines around the world violence broken out near of course gyptian city of alexandria the testers were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers used to killings twenty seven uprising clashes erupted when the presiding judge with proper resigned carrying out his duties. afghan intelligence has been torturing and nearly a third of all detainees transferred to their governments controlled by the us into a recent united nations report fullfillment claims and security says he's operating

sites to avoid international scrutiny of claims that could complicate the already thorny issue of the nato withdrawal in the twenty fourteen. i. syria's foreign minister has invited the opposition to lay down arms to start a national dialogue but added that present assets removal is out of the question further violence this week so bloodbath following two massive blasts in the northern city of aleppo on tuesday of an eighty people mostly students were killed and one hundred injured after explosions devastated the city's university trampas more in the country has been dragging on for almost two years now but it's not just the government and rebels reconcile their differences going to political analyst suggesting the syrian opposition is not capable of forging a united front. in opposition that these are some elements that are abroad where they are in table and even in. their

and in syria relations through the press and then you will be wrong this political daily or in syria which is the most in brotherhood and there. are not only news when you go rogue nation you also have it come out time to all to lean rebel forces in syria like free syrian army they are named you have to be a new structure on little or you had these and these moments right there is it directly. we would insure the secular bylines or corner members of your position so really we see the. whole. of the opposition there will be recounts now do you see the only thing they have in common is that they want to remove the government in damascus. well the next ten are to an insight into

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